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Frequency: (138)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
North German: patronymic from a short form of a compound name with the first element mar ‘horse’, or from a homonym meaning ‘magnificent’, ‘famous’.
GIVEN NAMES: German 4%. Arno, Monika.
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